En Passant...putting King in check?

Just tell us the answer blueemu...

Its a draw

Key words here are "as if."

In other words, it's a counterfactual. The pawn DID reach d5, but you can capture it as if it only went to d6. 

As a former USCF Tournament Director (& "Arbiter") the Black Pawn obviously did reach d5 since that's where it rested after it moved there.  The White Pawn did not intercept it at d6 until the next move, which - if I was still directing scholastic tournaments - I'd tell the objecting teenager that his piece effectively pulled the d5-Pawn back to d6 just as a castling King sort of "pulls" the Rook to his other side.

Just repeating the same points. I know what the actual situation is, but neither of the last two posts work with the concept of en passant.

This is very interesting. For me, I like to think of chess as where you need to capture the king, while you need to warn the other player when you are attacking it, and they need to move away, and checkmate is one move away from one player actually winning, while the checkmated player resigns. All this to say, Black should win since after cxd6, Black plays Bxh3, winning the game. To me it's the same concept of a pinned piece being able to give check, i.e.

That's just my opinion, I'm very interested to know what the official ruling would be.

1. ... d5 is checkmate.

The Pawn did indeed reach d5 to block White's check. According to the FIDE rules of chess, a move is complete when the player's hand releases the piece on its new square.

blueemu should do more of these lol, great teacher 

I don't see any game in your current list where an en-passent is even possible.

I don't know why the site wouldn't allow discovered check from en passant.

I don't see any sense in saying the Black moved the pawn to d5 thus blocking the check, but white's response of en passant means the black pawn never landed on d5. Of course the black pawn was on d5. Otherwise black finished his turn while still in check!

Look at any definition of en passant. The pawn is captured passing through the previous square. It doesn't get to d5.

How can it "pass through" a square if it lands on that square?

This whole topic is weird.

I believe black would have gotten the point. Assuming the rules would be to kill the king, black would have first opportunity. 

It passed through d6 to get to d5. En passant captures the pawn as it's passing through.

It doesn't. That's just the on-board representation of events.

If you're concentrating on what's on the board only, you can't capture en passant ever as there's no piece there to capture.

d5 is legal and black wins, are these semantic arguments supposed to be riddles or something?

I still don't understand this topic. The only time I can imagine this argument taking place is at a scholastic tournament, so the answer to emu's question is that the adult tournament director, who is probably even lower rated than the 800 kids, would award them both a win, and they'd even get to play each other again, because tournaments like that don't even use ratings, or a pairing system, or a clock, or a scoresheet... what the hell is this topic?

It is hilarious that this argument is going on.  En Passant is a move available when legal.  There is no rule against bypassing the capture square when taking en passant is illegal.

Here, taking en passant is illegal because White is in check and the en passant does not get White out of check.  There is no way and It is check mate.

There are 2 scenarios where en passant is illegal.  One is the pawn move is discovered check (along the rank or diagonal the pawn came from).  The other is that his pawn is pinned to the king.  For example, WK e1, WP e5, BQ e8, BP f7.  If 1...f7-f5, white cannot take en passant because the Queen pins the pawn to the king.

There is none of this exception crap or artificial  "pawn never made it to d5" crap.  The move ...d5 mates the White King.  Period, End of Story!

Yeah as said many times, everyone understands that's it's not possible...